05/05/12
An ex-member of our research group, Cally Hammond-Tooke, receives her BSc Honours degree at graduation. [see photo]
06/04/12
Clément Lagrue, a former PhD student from our lab, returns from France and rejoins us as a research fellow on a three-year contract funded via a Marsden grant. Welcome back, Clément!
08/03/12
Three members of our lab, Anja Studer, Colin MacLeod and Robert Poulin, are featured on the New Zealand Radio's Our changing world program, talking about the potential impact of climatic and environmental changes on marine parasitic diseases. Listen to the podcast:
02/03/12
Fatima Jorge, a PhD student from the University of Porto (Portugal), joins our research group for six months.
13/02/12
This semester, we are joined by an international group of short/long term volunteers and interns helping us with our research. In order of arrival, they are Michel Widmann (France), Iain Phillips (Canada), Shannon Smith (USA), and Toby Landeryou (UK).
30/01/12
Katie O'Dwyer, a new PhD student from Ireland, joins our research group.
23/01/12
Rose Ruiz Daniels, a Masters student from the European Erasmus Mundus programme, joins our research group for a few months.
19/12/11
Anson Koehler wins the 2011 Fairlea Prize for the best paper published in a peer-reviewed journal by a Zoology MSc or PhD student.
17/12/11
Two members of our research group, Anja Studer [see photo] and Anson Koehler (in absentia) receive their PhD at graduation
25/11/11
Sabrina Hock wins award for the best poster at the 22nd Zoology Postgraduate Symposium.
11/11/11
Cally Hammond-Tooke wins the Marion Fyfe Prize for outstanding performance by a Zoology Honours student.
07/11/11
Tsukushi Kamiya joins us as a Summer Research Bursary student, and will stay with us next year to carry out his Honours research project.
27-28/10/11
Seven members of our research group attend the 2011 conference of the New Zealand Society of Parasitology in Palmerston North. [see photo taken at the conference dinner]
07/10/11
Amanda Valois, a new PhD student from Canada, joins our research group.
05/10/11
A good day for us: we are awarded a NZ$830,000 grant from the Marsden Fund to investigate patterns of parasitism in lake food webs from 2012 to 2015, and a NZ$37,935 Otago Research Grant to pursue work on climate and disease risk in marine systems in 2012.
01/09/11
Congratulations to Haseeb Randhawa, who begins his new position as Teaching Fellow in Ecology! Fortunately for us, he will continue as an associate investigator in our research group.
01/07/11
Colin MacLeod, a new PhD student from Canada (and before that Scotland), joins our research group.
20/06/11
Allison Neal, a PhD student from the University of Vermont, USA, joins our research group for two months, funded via the NSF East Asia and Pacific Summer Institutes Programme.
04/06/11
Kristin Herrmann wins the prize for outstanding student oral presentation at the 86th Annual Meeting of the American Society of Parasitologists, in Anchorage, Alaska. Many current and former members of the lab attended the meeting. [see photo taken outside the Anchorage Museum on the night of the conference dinner]
07/05/11
Two long-serving members of our research group, Rachel Paterson and Kristin Herrmann, attend graduation to receive their PhD. [see photo]
30/03/11
Alice Martin, a graduate of Universite Paul Sabatier (Toulouse, France), joins us as an intern for 3 months.
25/11/10
Harriet Thomas wins the award for Best Student Poster at the New Zealand Ecological Society Conference.
10/11/10
Fengyang Lei wins the Head of Department Prize for outstanding performance by a Zoology Honours student.
08/11/10
Sabrina Hock joins our research group as a Masters student, and Cally Hammond-Tooke joins us as a Summer Research Bursary student, and will stay with us next year to carry out her Honours research project.
05/11/10
Harriet Thomas and Rachel Paterson win awards for the two best posters at the 21st Zoology Postgraduate Symposium. [see photo]
08/09/10
Ana Carolina Lacerda, a PhD student from Universidade Estadual de Maringa, Brazil, joins our research group as a visiting fellow for four months.
24/08/10
Lea Kremer and Jasmin Nelles, two interns from the University of Duisburg-Essen in Germany, join our research group for a few weeks.
15-20/08/10
Ten members of our research group attend the 12th International Congress of Parasitology in Melbourne, Australia. [see photo]
04/08/10
Carlos Rauque, a parasitologist from Universidad Nacional del Comahue, Argentina, joins our research group as a visiting fellow for four months.
09/07/10
Anja Studer wins the President's merit prize for outstanding student oral presentation at the 50th Anniversary Conference of the New Zealand Marine Sciences Society.
16/06/10
Tommy Leung, the longest-serving member of our group, leaves us to take up a Lecturer position at the University of New England, NSW, Australia. We wish him the best!
04/05/10
An article on parasitism, featuring much research carried out by our group, appears in the May/June issue of the New Zealand Geographic magazine. The article is written by Claudia Babirat, who worked as a summer intern in our lab several years ago!
09/03/10
Isabel Blasco-Costa, a new Marie-Curie Postdoctoral Fellow from Spain, joins our group for two years.
02/03/10
Professor Armand Kuris, of the University of California in Santa Barbara, joins us for a one-month visit as a University of Otago William Evans Visiting Fellow.
22/02/10
Emily Koppel, who just completed a Masters degree at the University of Minnesota, joins us as a research assistant for 3-4 months.
10/02/10
Jessica Dittmer, a Masters student from the European Erasmus Mundus programme, joins our research group for three months.
09/02/10
Melanie Lloyd, a new PhD student from the USA, joins our research group.
07/02/10
Mathieu Sicard, of the Universite de Poitiers in France, visits our research group for three weeks.
04/02/10
Sara Brant, of the University of New Mexico, visits our research group for a couple of days to tell us about her research on schistosome phylogenetics.
16/12/09
Rachel Paterson wins Best Student Presentation at the joint conference of the Australasian Section of the Wildlife Disease Association and the Wildlife Society of the New Zealand Veterinary Association.
06/07/09
Anya Gonchar, an intern from St. Petersburg, Russia, joins our research group for 3 months.
02/03/09
Two new Masters students, Melisa Joe and Harriet Thomas, join our research group.
22/02/09
Kristine Brueggemann, an intern from Germany, joins our research group for six weeks.
21/10/08
Robert Peoples, a new PhD student from the USA, and Amanda Bates, a new postdoctoral fellow from Canada, join our research group.
13/10/08
Professor Arne Skorping, of the University of Bergen, Norway, joins us for a six-month sabbatical.
23/06/08
Johan Ramsayer, an intern from France, joins our research group for the next ten months.
18/06/08
Devon Keeney, who gets full credit for introducing the use of molecular methods to our group, completes his postdoc and goes on to an Assistant Professor position at Le Moyne College, Syracuse, NY (USA). We wish you all the best, Devon!
20/05/08
Anson Koehler, a new PhD student from the USA, joins our research group.
05/05/08
Anja Studer, a new PhD student from Switzerland, joins our research group.
18/03/08
Parasitology group makes the headlines: Haseeb Randhawa and other members of the lab go to a shark fishing competition to obtain shark parasites! [see article in Otago Daily Times]
06/03/08
Yuri Springer, a new postdoctoral fellow from the USA, joins our research group.
01/02/08
Kim Bryan-Walker, who has been working with us as a Research Assistant for almost 18 months, leaves the lab today to begin the Conservation Corps training course run by NZ's Department of Conservation. Her dedication and good humour will be missed by all!
20/01/08
Members of the parasite group show off their new lab t-shirts! [see photo]
29/11/07
Kerstin Geiss, a student from the University of Duisburg-Essen in Germany, joins us for a few weeks as part of a collaborative project on infections of New Zealand eels by the swimbladder nematode Anguillicola.
02/11/07
Tommy Leung wins 'Best Talk' at the 18th Zoology Postgraduate Symposium for his presentation on the genetic diversity of trematode infections in cockles.
03/10/07
Our 'new look' website is launched!
01/10/07
Julie Hopper, from the USA, joins the group as a short-term research assistant.
19/09/07
Kristin Herrmann, a new PhD student from the USA, and Haseeb Randhawa, a new postdoctoral fellow from Canada, join our research group.
14/09/07
Clément Lagrue wins 'Best Poster' from the Division of Sciences at the 2007 University of Otago Postgraduate Student Symposium, for his work on trematode-induced alterations in snail phenotype. This is the second year in a row that Clément wins this award!
10/09/07
Lynne Warren, a senior staff writer from the National Geographic magazine, visits the group for one week as part of her research for a feature article on parasitism.
06/09/07
Principal Investigators Robert Poulin and Devon Keeney are awarded a NZ$774,000 grant from the Marsden Fund to investigate the evolutionary constraints on host specificity from 2008 to 2011.